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Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign. [1]

['Katie Rogers']

Date: 2024-08-09

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There was a time, early in her vice presidency, when Kamala Harris, aware of reams of conservative news coverage criticizing her laughter, privately wondered to confidants whether she should laugh, or show a sense of humor, at all.

They reassured her that she should, according to two people familiar with the discussions at the time. Still, Ms. Harris proceeded gingerly, embarking on a run of tightly controlled appearances. She focused on issues like abortion rights and worked to bolster her foreign policy chops. She took emotionally resonant trips during which she carefully honed her image. Along the way, laughter never really left her.

So it is no accident that joy — a battle-tested version of it — has become the backbone of Ms. Harris’s campaign in recent days.

“The thing we like about hard work is we have fun doing hard work,” she said at a campaign event with autoworkers on Thursday in Wayne, Mich. “Because we know what we stand for. When you know what you stand for, you know what you fight for.”

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